75 Readings Across the Curriculum

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This new offering in McGraw-Hill's line of inexpensive readers gathers seventy-five multidisciplinary essays together at a student-friendly price. Organized around specific disciplines with the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences,75 Readings Across the Curriculumhelps students make connections between disciplines and provides excellent models for writing.

Humanities

(27 Readings in the Humanities)

The Reflective Life

•Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook

•Richard Rodriguez, Aria

•Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness of Language

•Virginia Woolf, Death of a Moth

•Lakoff and Johnson, The Metaphors We Live By

(5)

Language and Literature

•Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Whose Canon Is It, Anyway?

•Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman

•Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue

•Gloria Naylor, The Meanings of a Word

•Leslie Marmon Silko, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective

•George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

(6)

Religion

•Langston Hughes, Salvation

•N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

•Joseph Campbell, Follow Your Bliss

•Lewis, Rival Conceptions of God

•Highet, The Mystery of Zen

•Carter, The Culture of Disbelief

(6)

Philosophy and Ethics

•Russell, The Value of Philosophy

•Plato, Allegory of the Cave

•Koch, Death and Justice

•Bennett, What Really Ails America

•Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Execute Someone, Would You, Probably

(5)

Cultural Studies

•King, Why We Crave Horror Movies

•Heaton and Wilson, Talk TV: Tuning Into Trouble

•Cepeda, Money, Power, Elect, Where’s the HipHop Agenda

•Gloria Steinem, Sex, Lies and Advertising

•Dave Barry, Red, White and Beer

(5)

Social Sciences

(32 Readings in the Social Sciences)

Education

•Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write

•Maya Angelou, Graduation

•Mike Rose, I Just Wanna Be Average

•bell hooks, Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education

•Shelby Steele, The Recoloring of Campus Life

(5)

Race

•Ronald Takaki, The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority

•Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me

•Brent Staples, Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space